“World Science Fiction Society”, “WSFS”, “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Worldcon”, “NASFiC”, “Hugo Award”, the Hugo Award Logo, and the distinctive design of the Hugo Award Rocket are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. I painted the entire map as well as doing all the buildings and layouts, because apparently I am a glutton for punishment.Īnyway it’s a huge honour to be nominated, and I shall now proceed to vacillate wildly between self-promotion and self-deprecation until the Hugo award ceremony at the Chengdu Worldcon. Last year I also did the poster chart for the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon #Move500Miles campaign which launched in January 2022, and is not SFF so much as SFF-adjacent. (The cropping is in the original art, I worked right to the edge of the board.)

And the Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso painting demonstrates my current obsession with cropping portraits in odd and/or interesting ways. The Andor piece was a delight to do (except for the likenesses, which were not a delight) because the series is so very good. There’s a detailed article about my art process for the Rogue One painting in the issue the style is an homage to John Berkey’s wonderful cover for the original Star Wars novelisation. By a weird coincidence they were mainly Star Wars pieces: my cover for the September 2022 Rogue One issue of the free fanzine, Journey Planet my Jyn Erso painting in the same issue and the cover for the December 2022 Andor issue of Journey Planet.Īll are acrylic paintings. I did a ton of artwork last year, but by my reckoning only a limited number of pieces appeared in places that make them eligible. (This is my fourth consecutive year of being nominated, which humblebrag only makes me blush further.) I adore seeing the variety and quality of work that gets nominated, and I’m very happy that I have a high enough profile due to my Worldcon and other fannish stuff that I’m even in the running. I say flattered because there are so many amazing non-professional artists out there and I don’t quite feel I deserve it, but I don’t know how to express this massive imposter syndrome without sounding like I’m down on the award or diminishing the achievement of the other nominees, which I’m absolutely not. I’m extremely flattered to have been nominated in the Best Fan Artist category for the 2023 Hugo Awards.

Bonkers bingo glasgow 2019